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15 December, 2014

Human Enhancement and Technological Uncertainty. Essays on the Promise and Peril of Emerging Technology

Doctoral thesis. KTH Royal Institute of Technology.ISBN 978-91 7595-341-0 Abstract Essay I explores brain machine interface (BMI) technologies. These make direct connection between the brain and a machi

Type of publication: Books | Jebari, Karim
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06 December, 2023
The Black Shore

The Black Beach: Moving Images between Swedish and Caribbean Shores

How can we understand life on the former Swedish Caribbean colony Saint-Barthélemy? This project aims to add to our undestanding using artistic methods as a complement to the juridical documents available in archives.

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20 September, 2018

Movie premiere! A New Society

Why do we need social progress? On July of 2014 a monumental task began as hundreds of the world's leading academics came together to set new standards for a just, secure and healthy global society. T has been tirelessly forming a non-partisan report addressed to all social actors, movements, organizations, politicians, and decision-makers in order to provide an architecture for present and future global issues and crises.

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26 April, 2022

Mollie Gerver: Refugee Resettlement and Adaptive Preferences

Plats: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Register here Abstract Aid organizations are increasingly lobbying wealthy countries to send aid to refugees in neighboring poorer count

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22 January, 2021

Persson's merely possible persons

in: Utilitas 32 (4): 1-9 (2020) Abstract:All else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the world worse, and creating an ecstatic person makes it better. Such claims are easily justified if it

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister , & Tim Campbell
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11 April, 2016

Completed: The social forms of intimacy – proximity practice and identity in cohousing, pet relationships and couple dance

How do we find intimacy outside of the nuclear family? This project examines couple dance, the relationship between humans and pets, and cohousing residents.

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12 December, 2014

Human enhancement and technological uncertainty

Defending the dissertation Human enhancement and technological uncertainty. Essays on the promise and peril of emerging technology by Karim Jebari. Dissertation in Philosophy at KTH in Stockholm. Opponent

Defending the dissertation Human enhancement and technological uncertainty. Essays on the promise and peril of emerging technology by Karim Jebari.
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19 August, 2022

Persson’s Merely Possible Persons

Bykvist, K., & Campbell, T. (2020). Persson's Merely Possible Persons. Utilitas,32(4), 479-487. doi:10.1017/S0953820820000199 AbstractAll else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the worl

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister , Campbell, Tim
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27 February, 2025

Multistakeholder Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Promises and Pitfalls

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, vol. 49 Abstract This review examines the promises and pitfalls of multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) for sustainable development. We take stock of the lite

Type of publication: Journal articles | Higham, Ian , & Felicitas Fritzsche Bäckstrand, Karin , & Felicitas Fritzsche Koliev, Faradj , & Felicitas Fritzsche
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10 March, 2016

Injunctive Versus Functional Inferences From Descriptive Norms Comment on Gelfand and Harrington

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 0022022115605387. Abstract Cialdini has argued that whereas injunctive norms motivate behavior by their promise of social sanctions, descriptive norms motivate beha

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Strimling, Pontus
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